Podcasts about humanities council

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly is considering a resolution in support of keeping the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area federally owned; The executive director of the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council will resign following the board's decision to cut diversity, equity and inclusion language from its website; An ordinance mandating that the Juneau Police Department release body-worn camera footage no more than 30 days after a city police officer shoots someone will be open for public testimony later this month; Libraries in Alaska may no longer be able to request books from out of state, or mail books and other media to Alaskans who don't live near a library; A program that monitors toxic poisoning in subsistence marine harvests in the Aleutians has halted, pending a federal review

The Idaho Humanities Council recently had their federal funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities cut. The funding makes up 75% of their budget, and the council says it can't go on without that money.

Almost 75% of the South Dakota Humanities Council's budget comes from federal grants. The Department of Government Efficiency has cut off that funding stream.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Sol Pelaez, an associate professor here in the Department of Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures. Dr. Pelaez was recently named as the university's 2025 Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Year, and she joins us to talk about the award and her research.  https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2025/02/celebrating-excellence-msus-sol-pelaez-earns-statewide-humanities

Paula Whyman joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about getting out of our comfort zone,  her attempt to restore native meadows in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, becoming obsessed with subjects and deep diving, writing about science and nature, controlling and selecting details for impact, being attentive to what readers need, writing tangentially, the need for deadlines, when your editor calls you a meanderer, leaning into exploration and not shutting ourselves down, allowing our writing to reflect the way our minds work, and her new memoir Bad Naturalist.   Also in this episode: -jumping from fiction to nonfiction -talking with experts -reading work aloud   Books mentioned in this episode: The Leaving Season by Kelly McMasters H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl A Buzz in the Meadow by Dave Goulson The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy  Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy  Real Estate by Deborah Levy    Paula Whyman's new book, Bad Naturalist: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop, is forthcoming from Timber Press/Hachette Book Group in January 2025. It's a blend of memoir, natural history, and conservation science, a chronicle of her attempts to restore retired farmland to natural habitat and what she discovered along the way. Her first book, the linked short story collection You May See a Stranger, won praise from The New Yorker and a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and won the Towson Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in journals including McSweeney's Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, and The Southampton Review. Her fiction was selected for the anthology Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review. Her nonfiction has been featured on NPR, and in the Washington Post, The American Scholar, and The Rumpus. She is co-founder and editor in chief of the literary journal Scoundrel Time.   Whyman has taught in writers-in-schools programs through the Pen/Faulkner Foundation in Washington, DC, and the Hudson Review in Harlem and the Bronx, New York. Her fiction is part of the curriculum at The Young Women's Leadership School in Harlem.   Whyman's work has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, The Studios of Key West, and VCCA. She was a Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers Conference. She served two terms as Vice President of the MacDowell Fellows Executive Committee.   Whyman is the recipient of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. She was awarded an MSAC Creativity Grant and 2023 and 2024 Oak Spring Garden Foundation residencies and grants to support her work on Bad Naturalist.  Connect with Paula: Website: paulawhyman.com Instagram: @paulawhymanauthor Bluesky: @paulawhym  Mastodon: @paulawhyman@writing.exchange  – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social   Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

William Flesch is the author, most recently, of Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction (Harvard, 2008), and The Facts on File Companion to 19th Century British Literature. He teaches the history of poetry as well as the theory of poetic and narrative form at Brandeis, and has been International Chair Professor at the National Taipei University of Technology (2012) and Old Dominion Fellow of the Humanities Council and Visiting Professor at Princeton (2014-15). *** The Mind Mate podcast provides listeners with tools and ideas to get to know themselves. Psychology-based with an existential twist, the podcast delves into topics ranging from philosophy, spirituality, creativity, psychedelia and, of course, the meaning of life! Your host Tom is a counsellor and psychotherapist who specialises in existential concerns and relationships. He is also a writer who enjoys exploring the ideas that emerge in therapy to help people live meaningful lives. Find out more here: https://ahern.blog/

Guest Cameron Fultz, the Executive Director of the Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana, joins hosts Brady and Jillian on Louisiana's Playground to discuss the Arts Council's role in making all of Southwest Louisiana a more enriching place to experience!  Find more information on where to eat, things to do, and events happening this weekend at VisitLakeCharles.org.    Stop by Rikenjaks for a delightful evening of entertainment, live music and food under the oaks!  Keep up with hosts Brady Renard on Twitter, @RenardSports and Jillian Corder on Facebook, @JillianCorderKPLC. 

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Christopher Snyder, a professor of history and the inaugural dean of Mississippi State's Shackouls Honors College, to discuss Dr. Snyder being named the Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Year. Along the way we discuss his research and the importance of liberal arts education.

New narrative was a way of mixing philosophical and literary theory with writing about the body and pop culture. It was promoted by a group of writers in 1970s San Francisco. One of the chapters in New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester's new book Nothing Ever Just Disappears explores their work. He joins Dodie Bellamy in a programme exploring different aspects of the gay imagination and the re-inventing of tradition presented by Naomi Paxton. Alongside them is Lauren Elkin, author of a study of unruly bodies in feminist art called Art Monsters which explores artists including Carolee Schneemann, and the influence of writers like Kathy Acker. And James Corley has adapted a play, opening at Wilton's in London, which takes an influential essay by Merle Miller as its starting point. Producer: Luke Mulhall You can find a collection called Identity Discussion on the Free Thinking programme website which includes episodes about including Rocky Horror and camp, the V&A exhibition Diva, punk, tattoos, and perfecting the body. Based on the essay On Being Different by Merle Miller, James Corley's What It Means is at Wilton's Music Hall in London 4th - 28th October 2023 Dodie Bellamy's first novel, The Letters of Mina Harker, took a character from Bram Stoker's Dracula. She has also published poetry, essays and memoirs. Nothing Ever Just Disappears Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester is out now. He is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council to put academic research on the radio and you can find him talking about Derek Jarman's Garden in a previous Free Thinking episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jgm5 exploring Stories of Love including Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hxhk and hosting an Arts and Ideas podcast episode about Raiding Gay's the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ff53xv Check out Forever Blue - Radio 3's broadcast on Sunday and then on BBC Sounds of a programme inspired by Derek Jarman's Blue, the film released 30 years ago which was also broadcast on Radio 3.

On this week's episode of the Northeast Newscast, Publisher Michael Bushnell sits down with Missouri Humanities' Ashley Beard-Fosnow and Ashley Vogel, and Kansas City Museum Executive Director Anna Marie Tutera to discuss their current projects, partnership with the Kansas City Museum, grant opportunities and mission.Missouri Humanities is dedicated to enriching lives and strengthening communities by connecting Missourians with the people, places, and ideas that shape our society. They recently moved their Kansas City office and exhibit into the Kansas City Museum's Carriage House.

Returning to the Show tonight are local legends of Hip-Hop in DC the Amphbns.The AMPHBNS originally met in Washington, DC in the mid-90s at an artist's workshop called “The Freestyle Union”. The collective is made up of lyricists, producers, painters, singers, dancers, and martial artists; aside from Native Tongues and other bravely creative influences of their time, they looked to each other the most for creative accountability.The AMPHBNS are 20 different artists from regions from the Philippines to the Caribbean who looked to each other the most for motivation and inspiration. The name refers to the diversity of the collective's talents and each members' ability to adapt and grow.They are here tonight to discuss "FRESH CONVOS: A D.C. Hip-Hop Oral History" at EATON HOTEL CINEMAProduced in partnership with the Humanities Council of Washington D.C., the documentary encapsulates a special time in the D.C. area when local Hip-Hop artists gathered and motivated each other. Featuring early luminaries like Toni Lightfoot, Toni Blackman, and the Poem-cees, the film paints a vivid picture of the vibrant existence of a Hip-Hop scene in the DC Metropolitan area.The screening will be held at the Eaton Hotel Cinema at 1201 K Street, NW, Washington D.C., 20005 from 6pm to 9pm. A Q&A session with the documentary's creators, Khalil “D'Jamaal” Gill and Shatungwa “Chakra Ashram” Juma will be held immediately after the screening. The evening will also feature a special “Happy Hour Video Mix” by AMPHBNS member, Chakra Ashram.Link to Chakra Ashram TWITCH Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/chakraashramAMPHBNS YouTube: / amphbns AMPHBNS EPK: https://www.amphbns.com/epkhttps://www.instagram.com/amphbns/https://twitter.com/amphbns

Controversy surrounds the question of who actually wrote the 1930 standard “On the Sunny Side of Street.”If you rely only on what is printed on the sheet music, you see Jimmy McHugh listed as the composer. So, why is there an enduring legend in jazz circles that the melody actually was written by The Flood's great hero Fats Waller? To this day, Waller's contribution to the melody line remains unconfirmed, but there is some compelling evidence that the tune might have been his work.For starters, early drafts of the song appear to be in Fats' own handwriting. In addition, it is well documented that during some hard times in the late 1920s, Waller was writing and selling a number of tunes to other songwriters.Maurice Waller Weighs InFinally, consider the testimony of Fats' son Maurice, in his 1977 book, Fats Waller. “Sometimes I'd inadvertently play a song he had sold to another composer and all hell would break loose,” Maurice wrote in the memoir. “One afternoon I was playing, ‘I Can't Give You Anything But Love,' and he heard me. Dad came storming down the stairs in a rage. ‘Maurice, I don't want you to ever play that damn song. I don't want you to even whistle it. Do you understand?' “I didn't understand, but later on he explained how he had sold that tune and other tunes just for drinking money, and it bothered him terribly that they had become hits.”And what about “On the Sunny Side of the Street”? Here's what Maurice Waller wrote about that:“The most vivid memory I have of one of those incidents dates back to the time when … Dad was listening to the radio one Sunday afternoon. Suddenly he became infuriated and smashed his fist through the living room's beautiful glass French doors. The song was ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street,' a hit record credited to Jimmy McHugh. Dad had sold the song for a few bucks when he was broke back in the ‘20s. McHugh also ‘wrote' ‘I Can't Give You Anything but Love.'”The LyricsMeanwhile, authorship of the lyrics of both those song — the work of teacher/poet Dorothy Fields — has never been questioned.Fields, who died in 1974 at age 69, was the first woman inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She met Jimmy McHugh in 1927 and began a seven-year partnership that produced some of her greatest lyrics, from “I Can't Give You Anything But Love” to “I'm in the Mood for Love,” which was her first song to rise to No. 1 on the Hit Parade. Well, who ever wrote the melody — Fats Waller or Jimmy McHugh — the wonderfully bright, cheerful and engaging “On the Sunny Side of the Street” has been a favorite of musicians and audiences since it first came out. Ted Lewis made the first recording in 1930. But it was Louis Armstrong who recorded the classic rendition in 1934 and the song became closely associated with him. Other versions include those by Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee, Dave Brubeck and Jimmy Smith. Arguably the most popular arrangement was by Tommy Dorsey and the Sentimentalists, which achieved chart success in 1945, reaching the No. 16 spot on the Billboard charts.Our Take on the TuneThis 2022 take of our old favorite was the very first tune we played on a happy summer evening at the Bowen House just a few weeks ago.Veezy Coffman was just back from a month's vacation with her family and everyone in the room was so happy to see and hear her again, as you can here right here.The Flood has been loving this tune for more than 20 years. For instance, it was the 11th track on our first album back in 2001, with Joe Dobbs and Sam St. Clair rocking the solos on a rather mellow instrumental rendition. Click the button below to hear it:A few years later, the song began a long love affair with Floodster Emerita Michelle Lewis (now Michelle Hoge). In fact, it was the first song she sang in public with the band. The event occurred as the band traveled into the eastern mountains to play at the 2nd annual Snowshoe Institute, a cooperative arts project by Marshall University, West Virginia University, the W.Va. Humanities Council and Snowshoe Mountain. Joe asked engineer George Walker, Michelle's husband, to record the evening's performances for use on his “Music from the Mountains,” so we have this recording of Michelle's maiden flight with The Flood, complete with Joe's introduction:Yes, all sunny, all the time. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

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This is a replay of a webinar that I did back in 2020 in conjunction with the Prince George's Arts and Humanities Council. Before I was running a brick-and-mortar studio (aka CAMPspace) and creating content experiences for entrepreneurs, marketing teams, and production teams, I was a publicist. This webinar entitled How to Tell Your Story and Land Great Media really gives small business owners like you and me, the easy, tried, and true nuggets that you can use to tell your story and land great media. >>Watch HERE

If we all weren't so cynical, we might expect professional ethicists—or say a professor of ethics or morality at a university—to also be a really morally virtuous and good person. And by extension, you might also expect a theologian to be a person of deeper faith. And that's because intellectual reflection about matters of justice, right and wrong, God and human flourishing all cut to the core of what it means to be human, and the things you discuss in an ethics or theology course, if you took those ideas seriously, just might change the way you live.Today, in our series on the Future of Theology, Matt Croasmun hosts Eric Gregory, Professor of Religion at Princeton University and author of Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. Eric reflects on what it's like to teach theology in a secular institution—the good, the bad, and the ugly of that exercise; the complications of making professors of humanities, ethics, and religion into moral or spiritual exemplars; the centrality of the good life in the purpose of higher education; and the importance of discerning and articulating the multifarious visions of the good life that are presumed by the institutional cultures in which we live, and move, and have our being.About Eric GregoryEric Gregory is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and articles in a variety of edited volumes and journals, including the Journal of Religious Ethics, Modern Theology, Studies in Christian Ethics, and Augustinian Studies. His interests include religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life. In 2007 he was awarded Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. A graduate of Harvard College, he earned an M.Phil. and Diploma in Theology from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and his doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University. He has received fellowships from the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization at New York University School of Law. Among his current projects is a book tentatively titled, The In-Gathering of Strangers: Global Justice and Political Theology, which examines secular and religious perspectives on global justice. Former Chair of the Humanities Council at Princeton, he also serves on the the editorial board of the Journal of Religious Ethics and sits with the executive committee of the University Center for Human Values.Production NotesThis podcast featured religious ethicist Eric Gregory and biblical scholar Matt CroasmunEdited and Produced by Evan RosaHosted by Evan RosaA Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/aboutSupport For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/give

The political Left often purports that it has society's best interests at heart and that it works for the good of all. Yet according to conservatives, it is precisely that self-regard, that attempt to monopolise virtue, which exposes the hypocrisy of left-wing ideology. In this archive debate from 2018, we gathered Labour MP Stella Creasy, environmental campaigner, journalist and author, George Monbiot, Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, and the leading philosopher of conservative thought, the late Roger Scruton, who sadly passed away in 2020, to discuss the issue of right vs left. Our host for the discussion was the journalist, broadcaster, visiting lecturer and Professor in the Humanities Council at Princeton University, Razia Iqbal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An 1856 portrait shows a 40 year old man from Benin who managed to secure his freedom after being captured. Dasalu was taken from Dahomey to Cuba, alongside over five hundred adults and children in the ship Grey Eagle. Once in Havana, he worked for the Count of Fernandina but managed to get a letter to a missionary Charles Gollmer back in Africa. Jake Subryan Richard's essay traces the way one man's migrations reveal the shifting boundaries of slavery and freedom. Jake Subryan Richards teaches at the London School of Economics and was chosen as a New Generation Thinker in 2021 on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council which turns research into radio. Producer: Ruth Watts

America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is the publishing editor of First American Art Magazine and an art writer, critic, visual artist, and independent curator, whose curatorial practice spans 28 years. She earned her MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and taught Native art history at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe Community College, and Cherokee Humanities Course. Northeastern State University named Meredith its 2018 Sequoyah Fellow. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, Meredith serves on the Cherokee Arts and Humanities Council board and the collections and acquisitions committee of the First Americans Museum foundation. First American Art Magazine Website: https://firstamericanartmagazine.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericaMeredithArt

An 1856 portrait shows a 40-year-old man from Benin who managed to secure his freedom after being captured. Dasalu was taken from Dahomey to Cuba, alongside over five hundred adults and children in the ship Grey Eagle. Once in Havana, he worked for the Count of Fernandina but managed to get a letter to a missionary Charles Gollmer back in Africa. Jake Subryan Richard's essay traces the way one man's migrations reveal the shifting boundaries of slavery and freedom. Jake Subryan Richards teaches at the London School of Economics and was chosen as a New Generation Thinker in 2021 on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council, which turns research into radio. You can hear him discussing his research in a Free Thinking episode called Dr Johnson's Circle https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vq3w and in another episode looking at Ships and History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001626t Producer: Ruth Watts

Ariel has a robust background working to support arts organizations that uplift cultural expression across diverse communities.  She is the Senior Manager of Impact Communications at The Save the Music Foundation, where she supports the organization in producing content that showcases the impact of the organization's 25-year body of work. When she is not with STM, Ariel volunteers her time supporting The HBCU Jazz Education Initiative as a founding member and Consulting Director. Additionally, she is the co-founder and a current board member of The Arts Administrators of Color Network, an organization she helped establish in 2016. There, she has stewarded programs that provide professional development and networking opportunities for arts leaders. She has served as the Founding Board Chair of the organization and continues to be an active member as Vice-Chair of the Board. Previously, Ariel has supported the establishment of The Lewis Prize for Music, an organization that provides financial support for Creative Youth Development music leaders and organizations across the country, where she led their communications efforts. She also served as Program Manager for the Social Impact department at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she helped manage large-scale projects and events geared towards amplifying the work of artists throughout the performing arts sector on local and national levels. As a consultant for the Los Angeles Fellowship Program with the Inner City Youth Orchestra of LA, she helped to gather insights and cultivate the project alongside the LA Chamber Orchestra, and the USC Thornton School of Music. This work was funded by the Mellon Foundation. Past professional experiences also include work with National Arts Strategies, The String Queens, The MusicianShip, The Washington Women in Jazz Festival, and Washington Performing Arts. Ariel has served as a guest speaker for organizations including Georgetown University and Chamber Music America and has contributed as a grants panelist for the Department of Education, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. Her written work is set to be included in the 2021 publication of A Grassroots Leadership & Arts for Social Change Primer for Educators, Organizers, Activists & Rabble-Rousers.   The volume “highlights authors from around the globe, who have contributed to the ongoing effort to expand the field of leadership from a bottom-up, collective, collaborative, and horizontally-based perspective,” and will be published by the International Leadership Association in October 2021. Ariel's passion for the arts began onstage, as a French Horn player. She has had the opportunity to perform with ensembles across the world, from the Grammy's stage with Lizzo to an international festival in Guadeloupe celebrating the work of composer Chevalier de Saint George. She takes as many opportunities to visit her hometown of Detroit, Michigan as she can, and is a graduate of Howard University, where she obtained her degree in Music Business. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeryelle https://www.instagram.com/aeryelle Aeryelle.com Contact AAMA: Website: https://www.aa-ma.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/african-american-marketing-association/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aamahouston Merchandise: https://marketing-for-the-culture.creator-spring.com/

Arianna Ross – The Truman Charities Podcast: A Community of Caring with Jamie Truman Episode 012 Arianna Ross Guest is Arianna Ross: Her company Story Tapestries aims to provide equitable access to the arts as a source to develop yourself and the community to shift the culture of inclusivity and narrative of the community. She has presented and taught over 840,000 people. For 23 years, she has been known for her ability to entertain, engage and educate children and adults with equal success helping them to find their voice and tell a story. She believes in the power of combining the arts, language, and STEM with social emotional approaches to support individual and the community growth and to create an environment where the building of cultural capital, growth, innovation, collaboration, listening and learning happens. Furthermore, she has performed and taught workshops and residencies across the United States, Canada, India, Vietnam, and Brazil in festivals, concert halls, schools, community centers and hospitals. Some of those venues have included The Reach at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Artist, The National Theatre Family Series, Hillwood Museum, Multiple Smithsonian National Museums, The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, East TN State University, Alternate Roots Week, American Alliance for Theatre and Education.  She has received funds to accomplish the work of closing the circle through VSA, Wells Fargo, Trawick Foundation, MD State Arts Council, NBC Universal, GEICO, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Fitzgerald Auto, The Blair Family Foundation and The Kennedy Center. Listen to this uplifting Truman Charities episode with Arianna Ross about her emphasis on teaching children the arts. Here is what to expect on this week's show: How Arianna founded her Story Tapestries and what got her into the arts. Her background in storytelling, teaching and performing for 23 years and counting. The programs she offer and what makes them different from so many other organizations and how each program in her school are catered to that specific theme. Arianna's outdoor event in Baltimore on July 28th and what to experience at this event.   Connect with Arianna: Guest Contact Info: Website- https://storytapestries.org/program-item/storytapestries-arianna-ross/ Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/StoryTapestries/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode introduces you to The Arkansas Humanities Council. In addition to discussing some of the grant opportunities and education initiatives the AHC offers this episode includes interviews with Jama Best, Executive Director; Tamisha Cheatham, Community Outreach Coordinator; Ann Clements, Education Outreach Coordinator, Joseph Key, Board Chair. For more information and access to grant applications: Arkansas Humanities Council Special Thanks: "H" intro/outro music-Justin Vinson "First Sun of Spring"- Isobelle Walton

The First Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris 1956 staged debates about colonial history which are still playing out in the protests of the Gilets Noirs. New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza leafs through the pages of the journal Présence Africaine, and picks out a short story by Ousmane Sembène tracing the dreams of a young woman from Senegal. Her experiences are echoed in a new experimental patchwork of writing by Nathalie Quintane called Les enfants vont bien. And what links all of these examples is the idea of papers, cahiers and identity documents. Producer: Emma Wallace Alexandra Reza researches post-colonial literature at the University of Oxford. You can hear her in a Free Thinking discussion about Aimé Césaire https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nmxf She also appears alongside Tariq Ali and Kehindre Andrews in a discussion Frantz Fanon's Writing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tdtn And in last week's Free Thinking episode looking at the fiction of Maryse Condé https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v86y She is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council to select academics to turn their research into radio.

Claude Mackay the Haarlem poet wrote about his experiences of an earthquake in Kingston in 1907. Twenty years earlier the city was putting itself back together following a devastating fire set off by a disgruntled employee. New Generation Thinker Christienna Fryar has been reading through diaries and archives and her Essay suggests that there are lessons we can take about the way societies rebuild after disasters. Producer: Luke Mulhall Dr Christienna Fryar is Lecturer in Black British History at Goldsmiths London and convenor of the MA in Black British History, the first taught masters' programme of its kind in the UK. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council to select ten academics each year to make radio programmes based on their research. You can find a playlist of discussions, documentaries and other Essays featuring New Generation Thinkers on the Free Thinking programme website which include Christienna hosting discussions about women and slavery, and talking with Professor Olivette Otele.

Claude Mackay the Haarlem poet wrote about his experiences of an earthquake in Kingston in 1907. Twenty years earlier the city was putting itself back together following a devastating fire set off by a disgruntled employee. New Generation Thinker Christienna Fryar has been reading through diaries and archives and her Essay suggests that there are lessons we can take about the way societies rebuild after disasters. Producer: Luke Mulhall Dr Christienna Fryar is Lecturer in Black British History at Goldsmiths London and convenor of the MA in Black British History, the first taught masters' programme of its kind in the UK. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council to select ten academics each year to make radio programmes based on their research. You can find a playlist of discussions, documentaries and other Essays featuring New Generation Thinkers on the Free Thinking programme website which include Christienna hosting discussions about women and slavery, and talking with Professor Olivette Otele.

Prescott- The Prescott Tourism Office will be accepting applications for the Tourism Advisory Committee (TAC) and Prescott Area Arts and Humanities Council (P-A-A-H-C) grants beginning Monday, March 1, through Friday, April 2 at 5 p.m. There will be a mandatory meeting for grant applicants on Friday, March 5 at 3 p.m. via Zoom. TAC and P-A-A-H-C Grants are designed to assist non-profit organizations hosting events in Prescott between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022. The goal of the grant is to encourage event marketing outside of the Prescott area, to encourage overnight visitation. TAC and P-A-A-H-C Grants are funded... For the written story, read here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/tourism-advisory-committee-tac-and-prescott-area-arts-and-humanities-council-paahc-grant-program-opens-march-1/

During our 50th Anniversary Celebration, the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage will continue to dig deep into our collection to bring you significant stories of Mississippians from all walks of life. On the 25th Anniversary of the Mississippi Humanities Council’s founding, Dr. Cora Ellen Norman made this observation on being selected as the group’s first Executive Director. “If I were being interviewed for [the] job today, there is no one in the humanities in the nation that would hire me. I had no background in the humanities.” Indeed, someone with a master’s in chemistry and physics seems an unlikely choice to champion the humanities in our state, but it turned out to be the right choice. Norman brought a passion and commitment to the task of developing programs for the betterment of all our citizens that far outsized her slight stature. In this interview from 1997, recorded soon after her twenty-four-year tenure ended, she pulls no punches in recounting the challenges they faced. 1997 – In 1972, Cora Norman was working in Continuing Education at the University of Mississippi. In this episode, she recounts being hired as director of a new statewide Public Humanities program. Early Mississippi Humanities Council programs focused on improving education. Norman recalls the reluctance of school superintendents to host these public forums. Convincing civic groups to host Humanities Council events required spending a lot of time in the field. Norman explains how limited staffing made being out of the office even more difficult. The Mississippi Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau “features our state’s finest historians, writers and storytellers talking about a wide variety of subjects related to Mississippi and beyond.” Norman reflects with pride on the positive impact the program had during her tenure as director. Dr. Cora Ellen Norman, 94, passed away on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021.

Watch the teaser for the film LIFE IS RICH. And learn more about bringing Bonnie & Leah to your organization to talk about parenting, adulting and passing down tradition.Want to take a fitness class with Leah? Visit her online studio or follow her on Instagram.Klezmer music by the Casco Bay Tummlers.This podcast is funded in part by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

Sharon Pratt discusses the cultural history of Washington D.C. with poet Naomi Ayala, former Executive Director of the Humanities Council of Washington, DC Joy Austin, and poet, teacher and host Ethelbert Miller.

Ryan Orcutt is originally from Miami, Ok. Upon studying and teaching abroad he returned to work for Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College; where he now serves as Coordinator of the CASA advising center. Ryan is a graduate of NEO (A.A.) and Evangel University (B.A.) he studied and received degrees in Music and Multicultural studies. He has also done graduate studies at Korea Nazarene University and Korea University in International Development. He obtained his Master's degree (M.Ed.) from Southern New Hampshire University. Ryan is actively involved in the community serving on the Miami City Council, Miami Downtown Redevelopment Authority Chairman, Bright Futures Board of Directors, Miami Arts and Humanities Council, Friends of the Coleman Board and Ottawa County United Way Board of Directors.

Bio Sylvia Dianne Beverly "Ladi Di" Sylvia Dianne Beverly is an Internationally acclaimed poet, presenting poetry In London, England, at the Lewisham Theater. Ladi Di is a Native Washingtonian. She attended University of District of Columbia, majoring in English. She is author of two books “Forever in Your Eyes” (Poems) and “Cooking Up South “ (Recipes and Poetry). A collection of her work is housed at George Washington University's Gelman Library. She is a member of A Splendid Wake, Gelman Library, George Washington University. Also, she has been featured at Smithsonian's Museum of History, African Arts Museum, Hirshon Museum and other Smithsonians. Ladi Di celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Host Grace Cavalieri, reading on her show "The Poet and the Poem" at the Library of Congress Experience. Ladi Di produces and presented “Males Making A Difference in Our World “. Men sharing their stories on how they have made an impact in their communities. Ladi Di is one of 6 County poets selected to present poetry in Poetry Poster Project. She has presented her poems at various events where 12 framed poems have hung. This includes reading at Maryland House of Delegates in Annapolis. She is one of three poets that accepted an invitation to tour the Woodlawn Plantation. While there, she wrote poems and the poems and poetic messages keep coming. Now “Voices of Woodlawn” is a powerful new presentation that premiered at Create Suitland by 5 poets and should be seeing by everyone. Recently Ladi Di was named “Poet of Excellence” for Prince George’s County by Prince George’s County Arts and Humanities Council, Office of Poet Laureate. Ladi Di is proud Matriarch of her Family.

It's the finale for Season 1 of GDP.  Dr. Bob Huish calls up two good friends in Fiji, Dr. Sara Amin & Dr. Christian Girard.  Both have teaching experience at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, which offers fully-funded scholarships to incredibly talented women from across Asia.  In this conversation, Sara & Christian share stories and reveal important insights into innovative teaching for gender and development. Dr. Christian Girard is an independent researcher and development practitioner based in Fiji. His main research interests include development, poverty, vulnerability and livelihoods; governance, public policy and urban planning; and social innovation, social entrepreneurship and social business. For the last 15 years, he has worked, conducted and supervised research in Asia, Africa and Latin America on various projects related to poverty reduction, housing and urban management, education, women’s empowerment Dr. Sara Amin is a Lecturer and Discipline Coordinator of Sociology at the University of the South Pacific (Suva, Fiji). Her research focuses on the areas of a) migration dynamics b) identity politics c) gender relations and politics d) and education. Previously she was a Fulbright International Visiting Scholar to Georgetown University. She has received research grants from the Ford Foundation and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Council. Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter:  @ProfessorHuish

Writing in Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, CLR James argues that: “the cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased. The range and scope of CLR James' work cannot possibly be captured in our limited time with you this evening. However, it is the intent for us to spend our time effectively with you in a way that encourages you to explore the work of CLR James as we hear reflections by those who had the opportunity to work closely with him. The epigraph just cited, is one that brings into sharp focus, two of Western Europe's deadly gifts of modernity, its attempted to redefine the praxis of being human (as the great thinker Sylvia Wynter has provide a map for us to understand); and the justification(s) for the creation of private property. This thousand-year process, according to Cedric Robinson, culminating into a racial capitalist system that feeds off the ideas that has structured our current world as a result of slavery, colonialism/neocolonialism, the salience of race as a cultural ideological class construct, the demonization of gender, and iterations of imperialism has left a deep wound on our collective human consciousness, etc… Next, you will hear, in order of speaker, reflections on the Legacy of CLR James from those who worked closely with him: James Early, Former Director of Cultural Studies and Communication at the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies at the Smithsonian Institution; Kojo Nnamdi, Host of the Kojo Nnamdi show on NPR/WAMU FM Sylvia Hill, Former Professor of Administration of Justice, Department of Urban Affairs, Social Sciences and Social Work at University of the District of Colombia; and Aldon Nielsen, who is currently The George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature at Penn State University and author of C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction. This program was moderated, in part by, E. Ethelbert Miller. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist and board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He is also a board member of The Writer's Center and editor of Poet Lore magazine. He was previously the Director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University and former chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. He is currently a Resident Fellow at UDC. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the Native/Indigenous, African, and Afro Descendant communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all peoples! Music referenced: KAMAUU: Bamboo & LăVĭNDŭR (LaVeNDeR) [Moving Still]; Kojey Radical: Water; Robert Glasper Experiment: Find You (KAYTRANADA Mix) ft. Iman Omari

Class of 1992 Flinn Scholar Shelly Lowe is executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program. An enrolled member of the Navajo nation, she graduated from Ganado High School and studied at the University of Arizona as a Flinn Scholar. Shelly has served on the board of the National Indian Education Association and as a trustee for the National Museum of the American Indian, and in 2016 President Barack Obama appointed her to the National Endowment for the Humanities Council. She has presented and published in the field of American Indian higher education and is currently completing her doctorate in higher education with a focus on American Indian student success and services. Links: - https://hunap.harvard.edu/ - https://news.arizona.edu/story/obama-appoints-ua-doctoral-candidate-humanities-council --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ajay-karpur/message

Partnership For The ARTS Talk Show 44 Where We Talk Art.... Beverly Yankwitt, Award Winning Nonobjective Abstract Artist, Instructor. A West Virginia native who retired to Florida, whose adventure in art changed course after trying a session in abstract at the Visual Art Center here in Punta Gorda. Now a V.A.C. instructor herself in Abstract and Mixed Media listen in as she tells you about the history of abstract art and how that it influences her style and teaching. Beverly is a member of the Florida Watercolor Society, the International Society of Experimental Artists and a past president of the Board of Directors for the Arts & Humanities Council of Charlotte County. Make sure you check out more of Beverly's art or sign up for her classes at https://visualartcenter.org/pages/beverly-yankwitt and her face book page at https://www.facebook.com/pg/Art-by-Bev-Yankwitt-2033208390232949/about/?ref=page_internal

The National Endowment for the Humanities was founded in 1965 by Congress. There are 56 humanities councils around the country, including here in Idaho. We talk with Idaho Humanities Council Executive Director David Pettyjohn about their public event with 2013 inaugural poet Richard Blanco Sept. 19.

Watch the teaser for the film LIFE IS RICH. And learn more about bringing Bonnie & Leah to your organization to talk about parenting, adulting and passing down tradition.Links mentioned in this episode:A Way In: Directing the Heart Through Jewish MindfulnessKlezmer music by the Casco Bay Tummlers.This podcast is funded in part by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

Forty Idaho teachers are gathering next week for the Idaho Humanities Council's Summer Teacher Institute. The teachers get an in-depth study of a single topic to help them teach that topic in their classrooms. The institute is titled "Are Women People?" The Journey for Voting Rights. The IHC is also holding three evening programs open to the public on the women's suffrage movement.

EDWARD TENNER is a distinguished scholar of the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and a visiting scholar in the Rutgers University Department of History. He was a visiting lecturer at the Humanities Council at Princeton and has held visiting research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Pennsylvania. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Wilson Quarterly, and Forbes.com, and he has given talks for many organizations, including Microsoft, AT&T, the National Institute on White Collar Crime, the Smithsonian Associates, and TED. His book, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, written in part with a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been translated into German, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Czech.

It is a pleasure to welcome Tennille Wilson into a conversation about creativity! Tennille studied Art and Art History at the University of Tulsa and Administrative Leadership at OU Tulsa. She is an Artist in Residence at Hillcrest Hospital, where she facilitates art with burn unit and brain trauma recovery patients, among others, through the Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council's Art of Healing program. She has been teaching, creating curriculum, facilitating art, and training others to work creatively with children in Oklahoma for over 20 years. Her work has been featured in Art Focus Oklahoma and Tulsa People magazine, and her community art is on display at various locations in Tulsa. Fill up your Do You Mind coffee mug and join Stacey Leigh and Tennille Wilson for a conversation about "Creativity." For articles, links to podcasts, merchandise, and more, check out our website at www.DoYouMind.life! Don't miss any of the inspiring DoYouMind.life content! To receive the weekly DoYouMind.life Saturday Summary email, click here. If you’ve enjoyed listening to this podcast, we invite you to subscribe and write a review on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Better yet, pop over to Patreon to become a financial supporter of the doyoumind.life project. Patrons receive the weekly Saturday Summary, special insider access, and DoYouMind.life swag to connect and inspire them. For about the price of a latte, $5 per month, you can become a patron at the not-a-latte tier. At $15 per month, you can join the Coffee Klatch and receive a DoYouMind coffee mug just like the ones given to our podcast guests, a podcast dedicated to you or a loved one, and other gifts. At $40 per month, you’re Serving from the Saucer, and in addition to these gifts, you get a membership box mailed to your home each month filled with goodies to connect and inspire you, plus a shout-out for your favorite charity on a future podcast episode. Please visit www.patreon.com/doyoumind to learn more.

Jamie and Donna tell the story of their marriage, and finding friends in Southern Indiana. JUST MARRIED is a project of Indiana University Dept of Gender Studies, the Kinsey Institute, the office for vice president for research New Frontiers program, and the IU Bloomington Arts and Humanities Council. WFHB’s Blooming Out is our podcast host. To hear longer versions of these interviews, visit the Kinsey Institute’s Marriage Equality collection or find us on facebook at Marriage equality heartland. ,

This week, David Pettyjohn, Executive Director of the Idaho Humanities Council meets with Jen, Justin, and Corey to discuss what the humanities are and why they are important. David explains the Idaho Humanities Council and what they do. The episode also includes discussion of humanities issues in the US today, and how the humanities relate to our favorite TV shows. Aired May 03, 2018.

One of the great promises of the Internet and big data revolutions is the idea that we can improve the processes and routines of our work and personal lives to get more done in less time than we ever have before. Technology has enabled a widespread increase of efficiency-enhancing  algorithms, multitasking, a sharing economy, and life hacks, and has led our society to perform at higher levels and move at unprecedented speed. But Edward Tenner—distinguished scholar of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation—asks: what if we’re headed in the wrong direction? Tenner joined Town Hall’s Executive Director Wier Harman onstage for a study of the long-term history of technology and the latest headlines and findings of computer science and social science. Sharing wisdom from his book The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do, Tenner questioned our ingrained assumptions about efficiency and examines whether relying on the algorithms of digital platforms can in fact lead to wasted efforts, missed opportunities, and above all an inability to break out of established patterns. Join Tenner and Harman for a conversation on smarter ways of thinking about efficiency, and what we and our institutions can learn from the random and unexpected when equipped with an astute combination of artificial intelligence and trained intuition. Edward Tenner is a distinguished scholar of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and a visiting scholar in the Rutgers University Department of History. He was a visiting lecturer at the Humanities Council at Princeton, and has held visiting research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Pennsylvania. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Wilson Quarterly, and Forbes.com, and he has given talks for many organizations, including Microsoft, AT&T, the National Institute on White Collar Crime, the Smithsonian Associates, and TED. He is the author of the book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, written in part with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recorded live at Fr. LeRoux Conference Center by Town Hall Seattle on Thursday, May 3, 2018. 

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Evan Uyetake sits down with Leadership Tulsa Executive Director Wendy Thomas to discuss knowing your community and how to be an active participate instead of just a community consumer. Wendy Thomas joined Leadership Tulsa as its Executive Director in January 2002. Wendy is immediate past president President of the boards of the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa and the national Association of Leadership Programs. She is a frequent consultant to area non-profits for board development and strategic planning and lectures frequently about Generations in the Workplace. Wendy received the Women in Communications 2014 Newsmaker Award and was named a Tulsa Business Journal Woman of Distinction in 2011. She has also received a Typros Boomtown Award for her role mentoring young professionals. To connect with Wendy http://www.leadershiptulsa.org/ Linkedin: /wendyethomas Twitter: @LeadershipTulsa Facebook: /Leadership-Tulsa-196007739973/ To learn more about The Young Businessmen of Tulsa: Facebook: /YBTOklahoma Twitter: @ybTulsaOK LinkedIn: Young Businessmen of Tulsa Website: www.ybtok.com To connect with Evan Uyetake twitter: @utalkie instagram: @utalkie LinkedIn: /evanuyetake email: podcast@ybtok.com This podcast is sponsored by Trost Marketing www.trostmarketing.com

Today we talk with Ken Busby, head of the Route 66 Alliance and former head of Tulsa Oklahoma’s Arts and Humanities Council.For those not familiar with the city, it’s quickly become a mecca for arts ad music in the state. Ken is one of the people at the center of that transformation. Ken lead the effort to build the Hardesty Arts Center – a gallery, studio, and classroom complex for Tulsa’s artists. It’s an anchor for the larger Brady Arts District, an area that now boasts several galleries, creative arts spaces, and live music venues.Ken has two decades of experience working in Arts and Nonprofits. He talks about his experiences, his approach to leadership, and he shares his favorite (and unique) interview question. Ken consults with businesses and talks about his approach. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Imogene Borganelli of Greenville graduated from Ole’ Miss with dreams of becoming a medical technician. “My father had been a superintendent and my mother had been a teacher and I said, I did not intend to teach school. I didn’t want to starve to death.”  It was the chance to coach girls’ basketball at Shaw High School in 1950 that lead her to become a teacher, anyway.  In this episode, she remembers when her team beat the team of her friend – coaching legend Margaret Wade. The Mississippi Humanities Council was founded in 1972 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Borganelli details the first Scholar-In-Residence Program. Borganelli served on the Mississippi Humanities Council for six years. She looks back with pride on her time with the Council and reflects on its importance to the state. Podcast Extra - Dr. Cora Norman was the founding Executive Director of the Humanities Council and served on it for 24 years. Borganelli describes her friend as the epitome of the what is good about the Humanities.

This week, Through the Gates hosts Jim Shanahan and Janae Cummings talk with Ed Comentale, associate vice provost for arts and humanities in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, and Arts and Humanities Council intern Lucy Battersby, an undergraduate studying history and creative writing in the College of Arts and Sciences. Ed and Lucy share updates from the council and talk about First Thursdays, a celebration of contemporary arts & humanities on the IU Bloomington campus debuting Sept. 1 at 5 p.m. The festival is free and open to all members of the public, with performances and activities around the Showalter Arts Plaza from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., followed by featured evening events at venues across campus. Janae Cummings also talks with IU award-winning poet Adrian Matejka, who has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and who is kicking off the inaugural First Thursdays event Sept. 1, and documentarian Rick Prelinger, whose film “No More Road Trips?” will be shown during the event at 6:30 p.m. in the IU Cinema #artsandhumanities

Novelist Patricia Duncker, discusses George Eliot, her travels in Germany in the 19th century and the German music she refers to in her novels and diaries. Duncker's novel Sophie and the Sybil is a fictional version of George Eliot's time in Germany just before the publication of the final part of Middlemarch. Alongside her on stage is Clare Walker-Gore of Trinity College, Cambridge, one of the academics selected last year by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Council to be a New Generation Thinker. The host is Anne McElvoy. Producer: Zahid Warley

In February 2016, the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council conferred one of the two 2016 Island Treasure Awards on Denise Harris. Growing up with a big family in the Pacific Palisades, the multi-talented Denise Harris and her five siblings were encouraged to pursue whatever interested them in arts and music. At one point Denise even decided she'd learn to play every instrument in the orchestra! But after mastering several instruments she began branching out, expanding her artistic scope to become a sculptor, set designer, singer, actress, and much, much more. Nothing seems to be beyond her: from her Gypsy Wagon at the annual Harvest Fair to her iconic signs at Lynwood Center (for island institutions such as Heyday Farm, Village Music, Pane d'Amore, O'Connor Architects, and the Treehouse Cafe) to her acting, her singing, and the fabulous sets she's designed for Bainbridge Performing Arts, Denise's range of talents and their impact on our community have proved to be extraordinary. As a featured artist at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, Denise is known for her enchantingly detailed miniature sculptures, several of which have become part of the permanent collection at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. She also sings with a musical group on Saturdays and with the choral group Amabile, and she has performed in numerous plays at BPA. Clearly Denise's childhood freedom to explore has stood her in good stead; if she determines to create or do it, she does. Even building a ukelele and a concertina with scrap wood were not beyond her perseverance and tenacity. In this interview, Denise describes those early years with her family, and speaks fondly of her enduring close connection with her five siblings, most of whom now live on Bainbridge Island. Raised to delve into whatever caught her fancy, she continues to expand her artistic repertoire with the same joyful anticipation and fearless abandon she experienced as a child -- and we can't wait to see what she tackles next! Though she admits to being surprised and honored by the 2016 Island Treasure Award, it's no surprise to the rest of us: clearly this award is richly deserved! Credits: BCB host: Channie Peters; BCB audio editor: Barry Peters; BCB social media publishers: Diane Walker and Barry Peters.

In February 2016, the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council conferred one of the two 2016 Island Treasure Awards on Denise Harris. Growing up with a big family in the Pacific Palisades, the multi-talented Denise Harris and her five siblings were encouraged to pursue whatever interested them in arts and music. At one point Denise even decided she'd learn to play every instrument in the orchestra! But after mastering several instruments she began branching out, expanding her artistic scope to become a sculptor, set designer, singer, actress, and much, much more. Nothing seems to be beyond her: from her Gypsy Wagon at the annual Harvest Fair to her iconic signs at Lynwood Center (for island institutions such as Heyday Farm, Village Music, Pane d’Amore, O’Connor Architects, and the Treehouse Cafe) to her acting, her singing, and the fabulous sets she's designed for Bainbridge Performing Arts, Denise's range of talents and their impact on our community have proved to be extraordinary. As a featured artist at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, Denise is known for her enchantingly detailed miniature sculptures, several of which have become part of the permanent collection at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. She also sings with a musical group on Saturdays and with the choral group Amabile, and she has performed in numerous plays at BPA. Clearly Denise's childhood freedom to explore has stood her in good stead; if she determines to create or do it, she does. Even building a ukelele and a concertina with scrap wood were not beyond her perseverance and tenacity. In this interview, Denise describes those early years with her family, and speaks fondly of her enduring close connection with her five siblings, most of whom now live on Bainbridge Island. Raised to delve into whatever caught her fancy, she continues to expand her artistic repertoire with the same joyful anticipation and fearless abandon she experienced as a child -- and we can't wait to see what she tackles next! Though she admits to being surprised and honored by the 2016 Island Treasure Award, it's no surprise to the rest of us: clearly this award is richly deserved! Credits: BCB host: Channie Peters; BCB audio editor: Barry Peters; BCB social media publishers: Diane Walker and Barry Peters.

Journeying with us today are two phenomenal men: Best-selling Author, International Speaker, Business Strategist and Intuitive Mentor Ken D. Foster of Premier Coaching (www.premiercoaching.com), and Poet, Author, and Literary Activist E. Ethelbert Miller (www.eethelbertmiller.com). The accolades for both are downright stunning. Ken is one of the country's leading figures in the science of business and consciousness. Over the last 19 years Ken has worked with thousands of clients who have increased their awareness, changed viewpoints and have transcended their limitations around business, money, success, relationship, and communication. Ken is a master at guiding clients to find the deep answers to their greatest challenges in business and life by showing them how to attain soulful communion and apply proven methods to realize peace, abundance, joy, and fulfillment. He will speak with us today about the techniques he uses, how he came to the path of the work he does, and the many ways his clients struggle then overcome. E. Ethelbert Miller knows all that it is possible to know about African American literature; he is an international expert on Black writing. He has written over 11 books as well as four anthologies and counting. He is the board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a progressive multi-issue think tank and a board member of The Writer's Center and editor of Poet Lore magazine.  From 1974-2015, he was the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University.  Mr. Miller is the former chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. and a former core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College. We will speak with Poet Miller about several issues of the day, learning from the breath, depth, and width of his vast knowledge of the legacy that is African American writing.  

Diane Bonciolini and Gregg Mesmer have been making beautiful glass together as Mesolini since 1977.  Earlier this year, they were named Island Treasures for 2015 by the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council. Their familiar installations -- the Beach Glass Quilt on Winslow Way; the artwork at Rotary Centennial Park; and the installations at the Bainbridge Library and at The Waypoint across from the Art Museum -- are easily recognizable for their signature fused glass style. For Diane and Gregg, their community spirit is evident in all they do -- from teaching and coaching at the public schools to leading the glass workers at the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN). Each of them has contributed many hours and materials to our schools, designing murals and teaching kids the joy of working together creatively.  They have introduced scores of people to the art of glass through classes and joint community projects. Always eager to support other artists and nurture new talent, Gregg and Diane were also founding members of The Studio Tour and part of the core group that established the Working Studio Group. Their latest effort includes support of the BARN, a nonprofit that has an interim multi-faceted facility at Rolling Bay and is seeking fund and build a new center for community creativity focused on craft and invention. Gregg and Diane are excellent examples of artists who have created a sense of community around their work.  Get to know them better in this intimate BCB interview on Who's on Bainbridge. And visit the Mesolini Glass website. Credits: BCB host and audio editor: Sandy Schubach; BCB social media publisher: Barry Peters; Photo Credit: Tony Johnson Photography.

Diane Bonciolini and Gregg Mesmer have been making beautiful glass together as Mesolini since 1977.  Earlier this year, they were named Island Treasures for 2015 by the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council. Their familiar installations -- the Beach Glass Quilt on Winslow Way; the artwork at Rotary Centennial Park; and the installations at the Bainbridge Library and at The Waypoint across from the Art Museum -- are easily recognizable for their signature fused glass style. For Diane and Gregg, their community spirit is evident in all they do -- from teaching and coaching at the public schools to leading the glass workers at the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN). Each of them has contributed many hours and materials to our schools, designing murals and teaching kids the joy of working together creatively.  They have introduced scores of people to the art of glass through classes and joint community projects. Always eager to support other artists and nurture new talent, Gregg and Diane were also founding members of The Studio Tour and part of the core group that established the Working Studio Group. Their latest effort includes support of the BARN, a nonprofit that has an interim multi-faceted facility at Rolling Bay and is seeking fund and build a new center for community creativity focused on craft and invention. Gregg and Diane are excellent examples of artists who have created a sense of community around their work.  Get to know them better in this intimate BCB interview on Who’s on Bainbridge. And visit the Mesolini Glass website. Credits: BCB host and audio editor: Sandy Schubach; BCB social media publisher: Barry Peters; Photo Credit: Tony Johnson Photography.

The Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council is celebrating creativity at the 2014 Bainbridge in Bloom garden tour.  From 9am to 5pm on Friday and Saturday, July 11th and 12th, this highly anticipated event will feature five exquisite gardens and live music throughout the tour. Visitors may journey to the gardens by bike or car or ride a bus arranged through Agate Pass Transportation. In this episode of “What's Up Bainbridge,” BCB host Lyssa Danehy deHart interviews Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council Executive Director Barbara Sacerdote to learn about the plans and traditions surrounding this 26th year of the celebrated garden tour, which brings in attendees from around the globe. Garden aficionados may choose Preview Day, Friday, July 11th, for a quieter opportunity to view the beautiful gardens of several Bainbridge Island homes. One of the homes on the tour is that of artist Gayle Bard, who, on Friday, will open her studio for the occasion. Or come on General Admission Day, Saturday, for the more lively and widely attended event.  This year, for a special additional fee, there will also be a Bloom Garden Party hosted by Debbi and Paul Brainerd at their beautiful Bainbridge Island waterfront home starting Sunday at noon. Ticket Sales Tickets for Bainbridge in Bloom events are available on the Arts & Humanities website: www.BainbridgeArtsHumanities.org or at their office at 221 Winslow Way West, as well as at Bainbridge Gardens and Bay Hay & Feed. Tickets will also be available at the Tour Hub (the Filipino American Community Center on High School Road) during the event. Preview Day tickets are good for both Friday and Saturday admission. Bike the Bloom tickets are also good for both days. Call the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council with any questions at: 206.842.9982 Credits: BCB Host and Audio Editor Lyssa Danehy deHart; BCB ferry music: Dogfish Bay Studios; music splash: Dave Bristow.

On this week's episode, SLUG's Editorial Assistant Alexander Ortega chats with Machiel Klerk of the Jung Society about their organization and workshops. Then, our fearless host Dan Nailen sits down with Stephen Simmons, co-founder of An October Evening to talk about the event and this year's plans. Finally, SLUG writer Brinley Froelich talks with Michael McLane of the Utah Humanities Council to discuss their programs and the current Book Fair happening around the state. Plus, brand new music from doom rock band SubRosa and heavy rock band Mortigi Tempo. In a few weeks Jeffrey Steadman will return for another Yelp segment talking about the best Halloween-related treats and goodies to find around town, and we’d like to hear what some of your favorites are. Call our automated voicemail line at 858-233-9324 and tell us your thoughts. You may get played on the show! … read more The post Episode #117 – Jung Society, SubRosa, An October Evening, Mortigi Tempo, Utah Humanities Council first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

Letters About Literature is a national writing contest for students in grades 4 to 10 sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The program encourages young readers to write to the author of a book expressing how that book changed their view of themselves or the world. In state program is managed by the Maryland Humanities Council. Every year at CityLit Festival, students and their families from around the state gather to recognize regional winners.Special Guest Author:Jonathon Scott Fuqua’s latest book, Calvert the Raven In the Battle of Baltimore, is an illustrated book for children. Fuqua has written YA novels, novels for adults, illustrated chapter books, and graphic novels.CityLit Festival was made possible in part by the generous support of the following: Recorded On: Saturday, April 13, 2013